"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
-Albert Einstein
I think it's just human nature to have to complicate things. But when you're in the clinic, that is no time to be an academic or philosopher.
I've always harped on clinical results. Working in the clinic is working in the trenches so to speak. This is where the rubber meets the road. Any flowery ideas of acupuncture or Chinese medicine, all the lovely beautiful concepts and theories, they mean nothing. Results are the only thing that matters - and the treatments behind them. While many think this disparages the "art", what it actually is, is putting the patient first. I will never apologize for putting the patient above ideology that doesn't deliver results, and only serves to comfort one's ego.
I've seen so many peeps brag about what they can do. What they know, how they can "control qi", or the degrees they have. Something is always missing in this bragging though - the patient.
Learning is fun, philosophy is extremely interesting, exploring new idea is important. But in the clinic it's all about keeping it simple.
Likewise, how are you explaining things to your patients? Are you lecturing on the differences between acupuncture and dry needling? Are you over explaining how your treatments are helping them? Have you noticed they glaze over after about 30 seconds?
It's best to keep working on your scripts and saying things very direct. Give the patients what they need - results. We excel in the clinic, delivering the tools we've learned. If we're talking, we're not working (unless you can do both at the same time).
And please, keep it simple!
January’s webinar is here! This one is a favorite of mine because it includes the fascial lens when teaching the movement of the foot and ankle. It cover anatomy, fascia, and accessory motion of the foot and ankle. Definitely worth checking out.
Give this a read after you watch the video: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7689775/
@Exstoreman Thank you for the meralgia parasthetica webinar on locals.
M/65
Chronic Systemic
1) Diabetic
2) Arthritis
3) High blood pressure and cholesterol
4) Very high stress from becoming blind later in life
CC (1 year issue):
1) Pain at trigger point of TFL
2) L/ Hip Pain
3) Back Pain
So I have been treating him as meralgia parasthetica but I didnt originally due to avoidant answers of this patient and reports he kept bringing up.
Doctors originally wanted a fusion to lumbar area or a nerve ablation to the area. The doctors kept saying different things for this case whether it was hip, lower back, or front of the leg related.
After a few visits he mentioned a fuzzy feeling over the top of his leg which I feel guided me more to meralgia parasthetica.
Tx 1: Patient came in bent entirely over. His pain went from 10/10 to 3/10 1st visit treating the tight bands along TFL and doing Lower Perfusion since there was some bulging of the disc felt with doctors mentioning L2/L3/L4.
Manual Work: Slide Cupping from TFL down.
His pain ...
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@Exstoreman .I have this patient with chronic neck pain. She is 51 years old. She said a flare up started around xmas 2025. She has stiff neck, sharp pain, and have headaches (all starts occipital RT side and go temporal). She also complained of pain around the masseter.
Hx: Sjogren's disease (diagnosed 2020)
Shingles December of 2023
Thyroid nodule + surgery 2009, treatment for hypothyroidism since
Well, i have seen her 8 times. She was coming 2x per week , for 3 weeks, now is coming weekly. She says her headaches are no longer present, and she said her facial pain is gone(I actually had to remind her that she was complaining of face pain and pressure). Well she seemed like she was getting better, and stating that her neck was feeling stiff and weird, but the sharp pain was better.
On feb 3nd she came in and said she had a really bad sharp , shooting pain, over the weekend. She said that the pain would come and go. I treated her and then she came back the same week on Friday, and said...
